so were Justice DJING or djing?

also, somebody please give white williams his inevitable FADER cover and make him stop playing a show every 2 days.

djing

Justice tore the house down!

dj = disc jockey. that means that they would be spinning records (or cds). what Justice did at Terminal 5, Coachella, etc... is a live set. I'm not going to go into the dynamics of what a live set is in electronic music, but it is making the music on the fly more or less. this is not djing.

kanye was originally supposed to perform, but i think mos def was his replacement. regardless, he wasn't there - he's in europe or something. justice rocked!!

justice KILLED it last night! a perfect cross in my opinion between the terminal 5 set and the INSANE afterparty studio B DJ set by xavier.

white williams was COMPLETE shit and the fact that he continues to get high profile opening slots is shocking to me... i don't see what anyone likes about him. His music and live show were very bland.

mos def was solid but no one could've gone on after Justice and delivered anything worth staying for. i left after a few songs like BV.

the version of killing the name...at least the one i believe you're referencing...is a sebastiAn walkman b-side

make damn sure you capitalize them names properly kids. gotta catch em all

Killing in the Name (Mr. Oizo Remix) - RAGE

sounds like a good time...did they let anyone in who was just waiting outside or did you have to be on the list to get in?

Last night's Fader 50th-issue party had a pretty stacked lineup: Justice's scuzzed-up noise-house, Mos Def's self-righteous mutating griot-rap, White Williams's detached neon synthpop. Those three share some common ground: they all rock programmed beats and Y chromosomes and expensive clothes. But they're nonetheless three very different acts working in different forms, and it's hard to imagine any non-Fader-sponsored situation in which they'd all share the same stage. I like all three, and I was amped to get the emailed invite a few days back. When I pulled up to the Bowery Ballroom last night, though, it suddenly became apparent that a whole lot of other people had gotten those emailed invites: more, in fact, than the Bowery Ballroom could hold. The line out front was long, and it wasn't moving. When anyone asked the bouncers, normally a lot friendlier, if they were still letting in people with invites or what, they grunted instructions to get to the back of the line. Up front, Diplo was texting people and trying to figure out how to get inside. Diplo wrote a Fader cover story a couple of years ago, and he's probably the closest thing the magazine has to a patron saint. As we were exchanging pleasantries outside, Diplo pointed out another guy who was stuck waiting outside, one who I really should have noticed immediately: DJ Khaled. The spectacle of Khaled waiting outside the fucking Bowery Ballroom to see Mos Def and Justice was some real only-in-New-York shit; you would've thought that guy could just shout his way in anywhere. I'm sure Diplo and Khaled eventually got in just fine, but the fact that they had to wait at all didn't bode well for me. I've been in situations like this before: stuck outside VIP-only parties, frantically texting friends inside and yammering about the Village Voice to any bouncer dumb enough to listen. If I'd stayed and waited another 45 minutes or so, I could've almost certainly made my way inside eventually. But outside-the-club scenes like this one are always dehumanizing and dispiriting enough to seriously compromise my ability to have any fun once inside, open bar or no. So I bounced. The Fader party wasn't, after all, the only thing going on last night.

http://blogs.villagevoice.com/statusainthood/archives/2007/12/live_diy_shows.php

white williams did have technical problems, which provoked the banter

white williams did have technical problems, which provoked the banter

@martha

Any DJ would still call a live set "DJing"

Its not *really* making music on the fly, its taking your existing tracks and kinda tweaking them on the fly.